Big news: The Sinica Podcast network is expanding!
Today, we introduce a new podcast: TechBuzz China by Pandaily, a weekly show about technology, innovation, and startups in China, created by Pandaily, a China-focused tech news site. The show is co-hosted by Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu, seasoned China-watchers with years of experience working in tech in China. They discuss the most important tech news from China every week, and include commentary from investors, industry experts, and entrepreneurs.
Subscribe to TechBuzz China on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or Stitcher, or click here for the RSS feed.
Right after the TechBuzz preview episode (the third of the series; subscribe to listen to previous episodes), Joanna Chiu of Agence France-Presse joins Kaiser to discuss the illicit wildlife trade in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Joanna went undercover in the two cities to search for stores that would illegally sell her two items in particular: scales of the endangered pangolin — the most heavily poached mammal in the world — and rare totoaba swim bladders. Click on the links to read her AFP reports on her investigations.
Recommendations:
Joanna: Crime and the Chinese Dream, by a leading criminologist of China, Børge Bakken, who discusses different examples of how Chinese people are sometimes pushed into a life of crime, as they feel the “Chinese Dream” is unattainable for them by normal means.
Kaiser: “Homo Orbánicus,” by Jan-Werner Müller in the New York Review of Books, an analysis of how the strongman Viktor Orbán came to power and maintains power in Hungary. Also, “The Right to Kill,” an essay by Cleuci de Oliveira in Foreign Policy, which asks the question, “Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?”
Space Debris: How Can the U.S. and China Avoid the Tragedy of the Commons, with Nainika Sudheendra
Priority Pluralism: Rethinking Universal Values in U.S.-China Relations
The Chinese Game Industry’s Journey to the West — Rui Ma and Rob Wynne on the Success of Black Myth: Wukong
The Tragedy of Old School Beijing Hip-Hop with Olivia Fu
Does Beijing Really Want Trump?
The Swifts of Beijing, with Terry Townshend of Birding Beijing
Bonus: A Free-Range Father in a Tiger Mom World — Reflections on Chinese and American Education
China's Response to U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls, with Paul Triolo and Kevin Xu
Eric Olander on China in the Global South
A Letter from Beijing
Anthony Tao: The Poetry and Soul of Beijing
Sinica Unscripted: Wang Zichen of CCG with a Third Plenum Preview and more
Improbable Diplomats: Historian Pete Millwood on how Scientific and Cultural Exchange Remade U.S.-China Relations
Adam Tooze on the U.S., China, the Energy Transition — and Saying the Unsayable
An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 2
An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 1
Peter Hessler on his new book, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education"
Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Sino-American Rivalry
Jonathan Chatwin on Deng Xiaoping's 1992 Southern Tour
Ed Lanfranco: from Hoarder to Historian
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